On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 20:40 -0400, Katelin Ganzer wrote: > On 10/29/07, Katelin Ganzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I was thinking that if the developers are opposed to having the > > channel displayed inside the progress bar, that maybe they would be > > okay with displaying a nicely formatted tooltip with a bunch of useful > > info?
Like KNetworkManager :) I'm not overly fond of their implementation, which I feel crams way too much questionably important info into the tooltip, but putting a few details into a tooltip like you've done here might be useful. However, there's one big caveat with 0.6.x. APs are aggregated based on SSID, and therefore if you have two APs on channel 1 and channel 6, you'll only see one AP in the menu. That's mostly by design. Where 0.6.x gets it wrong is because it aggregates _too_ much (0.7 fixes this). So the problem here is that you _can't_ really show the mode, the channel, the band, or the BSSID because you only get that information from one randomly selected BSSID of the entire SSID. I was under the impression that a patch like this would be useful precisely due to situations where there were a number of APs with the same SSID but different channels or security, which 0.6.x really won't let you separate in the applet... :( Dan > > For example, maybe something like: > > > > <b>ESSID:</b> Katie's Network > > <b>Address:</b> 00:19:5B:4C:F7:D1 > > <b>Protocols:</b> 802.11bg > > <b>Frequency:</b> 2.437 GHz > > <b>Channel:</b> 6 > > <b>Security:</b> None > > > > I don't know what else might be considered useful, and I'm not > > necessarily volunteering to go to the lengths of writing the code to > > get/display all of that info, but it would at least be a convenient > > place for other people to add more info that they'd like t see in th > > future. > > > > Of course, I've never actually implemented tooltips in Gtk before so > > I'm not sure how to do it =) > > > > Katie > > > > It turns out that tooltips in Gtk aren't that hard, so I was able to > implement this fairly easily. Attached is a patch that displays this > information in a tooltip. Hopefully this will make it so that no one > feels that too much info is displayed in the menu =) > > I think my new patch makes it all nice and pretty =) > > Katie > _______________________________________________ > NetworkManager-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
